Please, can we wait and let the Taoiseach respond?

Deputy Whitmore and Deputy Paul Murphy raised the carbon budget issue. That went through committee and there was debate at committee level.

Not-----

In all of the debates on climate change, I am struck by the fact that everybody wants to delay the day of reckoning on all fronts.

This is not about delaying. This is about giving the committee an opportunity to participate in the process and have its voice-----

We had that earlier in the cost of living debate, when people said we should postpone the carbon tax.

We are over time.

The same will happen with the carbon budgets.

This is a committee report. There is no-----

Committee members did not have an opportunity to have an input into the body of the report.

People will say it is not enough, but when specific measures will be put on the table in respect of realising these objectives, everybody will oppose them.

That is not-----

This is going to be the story of climate change in the next number of years.

You should join the Green Party.

There you go again. All you seem to want to do is to say the Green Party is the greatest evil since time began.

It is.

He is telling the truth.

It is not, Deputy McGrath. Younger generations in the country need the Oireachtas to deal with climate change once and for all. We cannot keep on postponing and delaying climate change.

That is what the Government is doing.

Every time there is a big conference like COP26 or whatever, everybody is all ado for about a week or two.

Dance to the tune-----

However, when we try to do something concrete about it and resolve carbon budget issues, there are objections.

Why is the Government not following the science? Why can we not debate it?

We had a debate on it.

We did not.